Swagger started to rotate right, to get around the bumpers of both cars, flank the shooter, and take him down from the low defilade, even as he knew that if the guy was no idiot, he too would now be on the move, rotating also to the right.

The tanks and infantry should not go together because the tanks will be slowed down and the artillery fire that will fall on the tanks would cause casualties, and the infantry may be able to approach the objective from a direction unsuitable for tanks to take advantage of defilade. 37

I knew where most of the latter were placed, since the best sites for artillery always seemed to be identical with those I chose to put my clearing companies in -- i.e., back of a division, near water, and with defilade (a hill facing away from the enemy so that their artillery passed over us).